# DA-RU-\*329 (Dārum)

> personal name, 'Eternal'; rival Arabic Dārim

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Dārum
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dawr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/40/index.md>) 'clan, generation, group of relatives' 1, 'maternal aunt's children' 2, 'eternity' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · RU (ru) · \*329

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *dārum* — dārum 'eternity, eternal', on DWR (Gelb 1980, §0.7)
- Eblaite: *da-ri₂ dārī* — da-ri₂ dārī 'eternal', fem. da₅-ri₂-da dārīta; ʾila-Dārum 'Dārum is god' (Pagan 1998, rows 1471, 1507, 1591; GlOS 1, 153)
- Akkadian: Old Babylonian da-ru-um 'lasting' (CAD D 117)

## Attestations

- [HT 7b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7b/index.md>): DA-RU-\*329 2 — personal name, 'Eternal', 2; rival Arabic Dārim

## Commentary

HT 7b .2 DA-RU-*329 2, after *21F-TU-NE 1, both over an erasure (GORILA I 15); face a lists Iruja, Tuya and Tetu. *329 read mo: Montecchi queries A 329 = Linear B *15 mo (Montecchi 2024, 173). DA-RU- recurs in DA-RU-NE-TE (HT 98b). Rival Arabic Dārim, Safaitic drm (Harding 1971, 239). One attestation.

## Same root

- [DA-RU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-RU-NE-TE/index.md>) (Dāru-ʿAnēt)

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-RU-\*329](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-RU-*329/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Montecchi 2024; Gelb 1980; Pagan 1998; GlOS 1; CAD D; Harding 1971
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Montecchi, Barbara (2024), Design and Origins of Linear A Picture-Based Signs. In S. Ferrara, B. Montecchi & M. Valério (eds.), Writing from Invention to Decipherment, Oxford University Press, pp. 171–188

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